So I’ve been kicking around an Ubuntu installation, hoping to replace my aging Fedora 5 deployment. Last time I touched a Debian distro was…well…sufficiently long ago that it’s more or less all new to me. Read more here

Long story short, after a lot of experiments looking for workarounds (that won’t eventually take years off my life, one sudo command at a time), I decided to cut the Gordian knot and recompile sudo. Which meant figuring out compiling source packages with dpkg — oh joy.